How To Install poretools-data on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install poretools-data on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is poretools-data
poretools-data is:
poretools is a flexible toolkit for exploring datasets generated by nanopore sequencing devices from MinION for the purposes of quality control and downstream analysis. Poretools operates directly on the native FAST5 (a variant of the HDF5 standard) file format produced by ONT and provides a wealth of format conversion utilities and data exploration and visualization tools.
This package provides example nanopore sequencing data in fast5 format.
There are three methods to install poretools-data on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install poretools-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install poretools-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install poretools-data
Install poretools-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install poretools-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install poretools-data
Install poretools-data Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install poretools-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install poretools-data
How To Uninstall poretools-data on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the poretools-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove poretools-data
Uninstall poretools-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall poretools-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove poretools-data
Remove poretools-data Configurations and Data
To remove poretools-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge poretools-data
Remove poretools-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove poretools-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poretools-data
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install poretools-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
